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Prince Harald of Denmark

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to turn a somersault

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brilliant; bright; glorious

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Roxane

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carriage; poise; bearing; demeanor; movement (of the body)

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draft horse; cart horse

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theatrical elocution

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inflammation; irritation

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overtone; harmonic

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Arbus

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acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)

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fallacy; fallacious argument

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crack; fissure; rift; split; chaps; skin fissure

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to think of as the main point; to make the main purpose; to put the focus on

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humble language (e.g. itadaku)

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game held with the Emperor in attendance

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to hum (a tune); to sing to oneself; to croon

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jointly held concession in China (e.g. Shanghai International Settlement)

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to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off

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winding; meandering; sinuous; zigzag

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to break the Buddhist commandments

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Leysin

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light (esp. as a religious offering); lamp

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being second to none; being in a league of one's own

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internal maneuvering; secret maneuvering (within an organization); reconciling the various views within an organization before airing something in public

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Archon

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dropping medicine in the eyes

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eye drops

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one's final abode

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terminal care

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top

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dwelling (habitation) site; site of a (prehistoric) settlement

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end; tip; extremities; terminal

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movements; behavior; behaviour; bearing; deportment; manners

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to be bewitched by a fox; to be confused

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dwelling place of hermits; pure land away from the world

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black charcoal

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to speculate; to make an educated guess; to gamble (e.g. on getting the right questions)

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to pluck off (esp. by twisting); to pick; to break off; to wrest (away from); to wrench free; to snatch (away)

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limestone

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nine levels of Amitabha's Pure Land; Amitabha's Pure Land; nine-tiered lotus leaf platform in Amitabha's Pure Land

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to escape; to make one's getaway; to manage to get away

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some; small amount of

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the lion's share; the cream

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to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets

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to keep in mind; to memorize

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Genbun era (1736.4.28-1741.2.27)

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to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)

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far out wide; far outside

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to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose

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